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Robb M Stewart

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Scribbling for The Wall Street Journal. UPI, Canadian Press alum.

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Canada Unemployment Rate Climbs to Six-Month High of 6.7% wsj.com/economy/jobs/canada-… via @WSJ
Canada Unemployment Rate Climbs to Six-Month High of 6.7%

Canada Unemployment Rate Climbs to Six-Month High of 6.7%

Canada’s labor market softened again last month, with a dip in employment and rise in the number of people hunting for work pushing the jobless rate to a six-month high.

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Brookfield Asset Management Fundraises $25 Billion in Quarter, Led by Infrastructure Strategies wsj.com/finance/investing/br… via @WSJ
Brookfield Asset Management Fundraises $25 Billion in Quarter, Led by Infrastructure Strategies

Brookfield Asset Management Fundraises $25 Billion in Quarter, Led by Infrastructure Strategies

Brookfield Asset Management is seeing no let up in fundraising efforts as it tracks toward a record year, driven by the alternative asset manager’s infrastructure franchise as investors seek out real...

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Canada Trade Surplus Widens With Rise in Oil, Gold Exports wsj.com/economy/trade/canada… via @WSJ
Canada’s Trade Surplus Widens as Oil, Gold Drive Record Exports

Canada’s Trade Surplus Widens as Oil, Gold Drive Record Exports

The widening to C$5.35 billion in September marked the the biggest surplus in over four years as exports hit a fresh record high.

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Foodtastic Makes Hostile Bid for Rival MTY Food After Being Rejected

Foodtastic Makes Hostile Bid for Rival MTY Food After Being Rejected

Canadian restaurant franchisor Foodtastic launched a hostile bid for MTY Food valuing its rival at roughly 982 million Canadian dollars, the equivalent of about US$702 million.

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Canada Manufacturing Sector PMI Slips Into Contraction Territory wsj.com/economy/canada-manuf… via @WSJ
Canada Manufacturing Sector PMI Slips Into Contraction Territory

Canada Manufacturing Sector PMI Slips Into Contraction Territory

The S&P Global Canada manufacturing purchasing managers index retreated in October to 49.6, a third straight monthly decline.

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Canada GDP Seen Dipping in September After Two Flat Months wsj.com/economy/canada-gdp-s… via @WSJ
Canada GDP Seen Dipping in September After Two Flat Months

Canada GDP Seen Dipping in September After Two Flat Months

Canada’s economy cooled in the latest quarter after activity unexpectedly stalled two months running and early data points to a slight contraction in September.

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Canada Retail Sales Look to Build on August’s Rebound wsj.com/economy/consumers/ca… via @WSJ
Canada Retail Sales Look to Build on August’s Rebound

Canada Retail Sales Look to Build on August’s Rebound

Retail spending by Canadians looks to have remained on the rise last month, though the pace is showing signs of cooling as uncertainty and gasoline prices remain high.

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Canada Producer Prices Rise Again in September, Climbing 2% for the Month

Canada Producer Prices Rise Again in September, Climbing 2% for the Month

Statistics Canada’s industrial product price index increased 2% in September from the month before and jumped 14.5% compared with a year earlier, a 24th consecutive annual increase.

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Hudbay, Mitsubishi Approve Construction of Big Copper Project in Arizona

Hudbay, Mitsubishi Approve Construction of Big Copper Project in Arizona

Hudbay Minerals and partner Mitsubishi have formally approved construction of what promises to be the next major copper mine in the U.S., with production set to begin in the back half of 2029.

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Canada Inflation Heats Up in September With Jump in Gas Prices wsj.com/economy/central-bank… via @WSJ
Canada Inflation Heats Up in September With Jump in Gas Prices

Canada Inflation Heats Up in September With Jump in Gas Prices

Canadian inflation ticked higher last month as prices at the pump jumped again, though underlying price pressures look to be holding steady.

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Canada Housing Starts Rise in September, Though Market Faces Longer-Term Supply Gap wsj.com/economy/housing/cana… via @WSJ
Canada Housing Starts Rise in September, Though Market Faces Longer-Term Supply Gap

Canada Housing Starts Rise in September, Though Market Faces Longer-Term Supply Gap

Canadian housing starts picked up last month though the pace remains soft as the broader market shows signs of cooling into the end of the year.

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Canada Factory Sales Recover in August With Increased Prices

Canada Factory Sales Recover in August With Increased Prices

Shipments increased from the month before, marking a sixth rise in factory trade in the last seven months after a 0.3% dip in July.

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Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban

Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban

The automaker is expanding to Canada under a deal to bring tens of thousands of affordable EVs from China’s car companies to the country.

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Weakness in Canada's job market extended into September, with employment now down 110,000 over two months but the jobless rate up only a tick to 6.5% via @WSJ wsj.com/economy/jobs/canada-…
Canada Jobless Rate Edges Up With Another Drop in Employment

Canada Jobless Rate Edges Up With Another Drop in Employment

Canada’s economy shed jobs for a second month running, nudging the unemployment rate up. Employers cut 68,300 jobs in September, Statistics Canada said.

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, Mandela Lawyer Who Led Human Rights at U.N.

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, Mandela Lawyer Who Led Human Rights at U.N.

The South African was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

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Acclaimed Canadian poet Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “bold and inventive” work wsj.com/world/canadian-poet-… via @WSJ

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The acclaimed poet, classicist and translator was lauded by the Nobel Committee for her “bold and inventive” work.

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Devon Energy is selling its Eagle Ford assets to Crescent Energy for $4.2 Billion wsj.com/business/energy-oil/… via @WSJ

Devon Energy Sells Eagle Ford Assets to Crescent Energy for $4.2 Billion

President and CEO Clay Gaspar said the deal is the outcome of an ongoing portfolio review and sharpens the company’s focus on its highest-return and longest-duration assets.

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Canada’s Weston Family to Buy British Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion wsj.com/business/retail/witt… via @WSJ
Canada’s Weston Family to Buy British Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion

Canada’s Weston Family to Buy British Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion

The move will see Wittington buy Boots’ retail operations in the U.K. and Ireland; the Boots Opticians chain, No7 Beauty Co., and its Thailand and franchised businesses.

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Canada’s August Trade Surplus Widens Sharply Ahead of Fresh Tariffs wsj.com/economy/trade/canada… via @WSJ
Canada’s August Trade Surplus Widens Sharply Ahead of Fresh Tariffs

Canada’s August Trade Surplus Widens Sharply Ahead of Fresh Tariffs

Reading marked a sixth consecutive merchandise-trade surplus and the biggest since May 2022, and came in well above the roughly C$1.5 billion economists anticipated.

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Is it plausible that Americans will spend as much of their income on artificial intelligence as they do on food, asks @greg_ip wsj.com/tech/ai/will-america… via @WSJ

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It

To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food.

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